The Utah Review | A ravishing evening filled with heart-bursting emotion and endless adrenaline

or the ravishing opening night of Ballet West’s quadruple bill connecting the Broadway stage to classical ballet, one could not have launched this unforgettable evening of Utah premieres better than with Alison Olsen playing the last ten bars of Debussy’s Syrinx for solo flute as the prelude for Jerome Robbins’ Antique Epigraphs. 

Intimate, delicate and fragile, the music sets the stage as the curtain rises, showing eight marvelous tall dancers — womanhood and love together as an accomplished instrument. Unlike the athletic, propulsive, high-octane choreography of Robbin’s’ West Side Story Suite which closed out the evening, the seven scenes of his Antique Epigraphs were poetic miniatures of pristine minimalism.

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